Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey by Daniel Mueller

Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey by Daniel Mueller

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Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey by Daniel Mueller

Eleven stories by the author of the critically-acclaimed HOW ANIMALS MATE. Daniel Mueller reveals the distance between our everyday masks and the selves we strain to recognize in them. A boy whose parents live apart decides to model himself after a neighborhood sociopath. A corporate systems analyst attempts to reconcile a homoerotic childhood with his conventional nuclear family. A divorcee dating a rape survivor must admit that what he loves most about her would, in his daughter, completely destroy him. Funny and grim, stylish and provocative, these stories find in disjunction and misalignment unparalleled tension and exquisite grace. Advance praise from Peter Ho Davies: Daniel Mueller is a true American original, his raucous, ribald vision (call it sub-division surreal) at once chokingly funny, and fiercely felt. These stories move from gut-busting to gut-churning to gut-wrenching in the blink of an eye, uncovering along the way the tender in the grotesque, the lovely in the lurid, and the soul in suburbia. Mueller big-hearted and fearless as he is has long been one of my cult writers. Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey should give many new readers the chance to discover him.
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ISBN 13 9781937402495
ISBN 10 1937402495
Title Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
Author Daniel Mueller
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Outpost19
Year published 2013-03-05
Number of pages 232
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.